As a unit of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, the State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program (SSGM) is Australia’s foremost centre for multi-disciplinary research on contemporary Melanesia, Timor Leste and the wider Pacific. SSGM conducts policy-relevant research and advanced analysis of social change, governance, development, politics and state-society relations in this region, and comprises the most significant concentration of scholars working on these issues.